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Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...managed. When dying takes place in a public, (relatively) open and visible space such as a hospital, or a section of a hospital such as the intensive care setting, an individual’s experience becomes a communal issue and a public administrative matter. For example, there may be enormous pressure on beds in a ward where someone is dying – the pressure for the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn Statement of Participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...managers to develop initiatives to enable people who may currently be or feel excluded to become ‘digital citizens’ and to access health care. This is the focus of the next activity. Activity 1 Digital Ambassadors: creating digital citizens First, read the article ‘Being a digital ambassador for young carers’, in which Amen Dhesi gives an insight into the value of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...manager's viewpoint, it is crucial to have well-defined activities that make it possible to estimate when a final product will be completed and the effort required to achieve it. From developer's viewpoint it is important to have well-defined tasks and clear outcomes, and to know which documents and artefacts should be produced by each of the activities undertaken. From a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
What does it take to mentor young offenders?
Education & Development

What does it take to mentor young offenders?

...management. Overall, there was strong evidence of success in each of these three components. This was seen as a result of the reflective approach adopted; defining the rationale behind each activity, developing clarity around what works and what doesn’t, and ensuring that these are appropriate to age and skills of individual mentors. Ever thought of volunteering? Try...
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Video 10 mins
Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?
Society, Politics & Law

Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?

...prevented famine. But thinking about phosphorus as a human right does highlight that the right to food cannot be enforced by simply mandating access to an end product. It will also necessitate developing agricultural systems that are managed in a way that is both equitable and sustainable. This article was originally published by SciDevNet in 2014 under a CC-BY licence...
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Article 5 mins
Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...management.” The team focused on the climate action plans until 2030. The tool allows users to toggle between 163 intended and actual climate plans, thus noting any changes in the two documents for a particular country. Nicholas Ozor, executive director of the Kenya-based African Technology Policy Studies Network, tells SciDev.Net that the tool could improve...
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Video 5 mins
Hallowain't III: Thorny devil
Science, Maths & Technology

Hallowain't III: Thorny devil

...its forelegs, leaving the false head where its real head used to be. Transcript Maybe having a spare head does manage to make the thorny devil quite an apt creature to bring the curtain down on our Hallowain't beastiary. Have a wonderful, safe halloween and perhaps we'll see you again next year for more horrors that, on closer inspection, turn out to not be horrors....
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Video 5 mins